Upcycled Fabric Baskets

Part of Dunblane Ecofest 2025 - craft a sustainable future in CSSC's innovative upcycling workshop that explores using scrap textiles to create upcycled fabric baskets. You'll use salvaged ropes, scrap fabrics and old clothing, and spend the day meditatively coiling and stitching vessels. You'll wrap and stitch as we go using strips of salvaged fabric. As the baskets start to take shape you'll look at how to control the width and angle of the walls to create your choice of bowl or basket. Curate your own colour palette, in subtle matching hues or bright contrast to create a simple and sustainable vessel for your home – perfect for storing your craft materials, or to start a scrap collection to make your next basket with! You'll work on domestic scale vessels within the workshop, but once you have mastered the technique you can go on to create more ambitious projects at home, such as rugs and wall hangings!

No previous sewing or weaving experience is necessary. Up-cycling is for everyone!

About Your TutorEilidh Weir is an artist and designer who is best know as the founder of sustainable fashion brand All That Is Braw. Eilidh’s holistic approach to sustainable fashion starts with careful sourcing of her materials, which are sewn in house, by hand, right here in Central Scotland, and even mended and altered as required by Eilidh’s own fair hand. Taking a zero waste approach, she saves all the scraps from her successful garment making cottage industry, and uses them to create beautiful textile artworks that champion sustainability, inclusivity, and understanding across a broad range of issues including mental health awareness and support for the LGBTQ+ community.  She is passionate about mending and reducing textile waste and is keen to share these skills far and wide.